[Xorp-hackers] Adding support for older scons releases?

[J.T. Conklin]

Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> writes:
>> I added the EnsureSConsVersion(1, 2) when someone tried to an earlier
>> version without support for Variables().
>>
>> 1.2 was the earliest version I had handy.  If we can verify it works
>> with an earlier version, we can change the version number accordingly.
>> If you can confirm it works with 0.98.4, I think we can change it to
>> EnsureSConsVersion(0, 98, 4).
>>
> It certainly compiles.  Unless some random conditional test acted
> differently, then it would appear to work fine.
>
> There should be a comment in the code near that call or at least in
> the commit message that explains the limitation of earlier scons
> packages in case someone wants to write work-around logic to compile
> on yet older systems.

I'll commit a patch along those lines later tonight.

    --jtc

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J.T. Conklin